Season 281 - Hello and Goodbye



Hi Liz! Have been without Internet connection since the end of last week ... just got back on. My first effort for this week; hope to get another one done. Meanwhile, a very happy 4th July to everyone out there!


To anyone kind enough to have commented on this vid, I have lost my Internet access AGAIN!!!! till tomorrow. So I can't reply, and by the same token, I can't watch anyone else's videos. Normal service will be resumed from 1.00 a.m. Wednesday, should I feel like getting up that early. GRRR!!!
 
Season 281. Submission 2. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Music from a 17th Century Irish melody and American lyrics by Patrick Gilmore, 1863) This song was sung in both the North and South in hopes of welcoming young men back from battle during the American Civil War.

This was a song that imagined the "hello" our young men would find if they were fortunate enough to return to their homes. Liz, I hope that you'll accept it for your theme, with perhaps a bit of the Thornton rule applied, if needed.



 
Rattled this one off while I made the tea. You can hear the phone at the end, and my daughter's voice, but I quite liked it so left it in :D
 
Time for more barely-competent multitracking. I had fun. This season is lacking in the overproduced 70's prog-rock department.
 
In the back of my mind, I had this down as a song Bruce Springsteen gave away, because I remembered Ronnie Spector doing it with the E-Street Band. But no, it was by Billy Joel, as everyone but me has always known.

 
Greetings,

A one take wonder on July 4th before going off to a barbie..so here is it for the season. "Angie" is the song I chose. I wasn't warmed up yet and people popped in and out, but I only had a few minutes, so here goes.


Ciao

 
another hawkwind song :rolleyes: i seem to specialising in songs with hello and goodbye well hidden somewhere deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep in the lyrics, in this one, both words make an appearance, but not until right at the end :uhoh: but hey it's hawkwind, so :rock:

 
It's the Fourth of July, and people in the neighborhood have been shooting off firecrackers all evening. I was figuring there would be a few during the video. Instead there was a lull while I was doing my handful of takes. Anyway, this is a Todd Rundgren song.


 
This song was written in the 1930s by "Little" Jack Little. #3 for me!

 
Randy encouraged me to record a version of "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye." It lacks the finesse of his video and certainly I never attempted any whistling like he did, although when you hear the dodgy vocals you'll perhaps think it would've been an improvement. Whatever, it remains a great song and fun to play. Thanks for the prompt, Randy.
 
More comments:

Andrew - Goodbye Kid - I haven't heard this one before, thanks for introducing it to me. I always love your picking and your voice is fantastic!

jazzbanjorex - Hello again - Nice one! Neil Diamond is always welcome! Your voice sounds great on this one!

BEVOMU - Ejection - A very interesting song, I like your playing and singing on this one! And Kit Kat uke is to die for!

jazzbanjorex - I wanna say hello - Very cute song! You did a great job figuring out the chords. It's a nice and peppy song and I am so glad you brought it to the season, Thanks! (PS I kind of like the led lights!)

uke4ia - Farewell, farewell - A lovely song! That armadillo shell ukulele is very warm and fits the song beautifully!

Desert pavement - If you see her say hello - Great song! I have never heard any of The Master's and this one is really nice. I love your picking and it fits your voice well!

weegingayin - Everytime we say goodbye - Beautiful song! I like your picking and your awesome singing.

dickadcock - I feel like Hank Williams tonight - This is a lovely song. I love your low register, it sends chills down my spine!

dickadcock - Hello in there - I agree, so poignant! Your vocals just make me want to cry. You do a great job putting emotion into them.

Rick - So long Baby - Loved the harmonica! It really adds a lot to the song! Great song!

Cloverdale Kid - Hello on a day like today - Your vocals come through so strong and intense! I enjoyed it very much!

Ryan - Hey Ya - Wow, is that your little one? He has gotten so big! It is great he enjoys being in your vid! Lovely song!

Old Gardener Guy/weegingayin - Hello Hello - Why do your videos make me sick to my stomach? nice one!

Limousin Lil - Goodbye EE - wow! an oldy but a goody! You do a great job making me feel like I am back in that day!
 
Goodbye Girl - Squeeze Cover by 29moons

Here's my version of Goodbye Girl by Squeeze - Not much time for a video, so here's a little something interesting to watch. Headphones as always recommended.

 
This one was pretty popular in the mid 60s when I first got interested in folk music and is well known on both sides of the pond. UK folkies may well remember The Spinners. This was almost their anthem.


Edit to add that this song was originally collected in America by William Doerflinger of Long Island who specialised in collecting sea songs and shanties.
 
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A Letter From Camp

The Legend of the Water Melon Baby


Once upon a time when I was a camper at Camp Hugh Beaver I stood by the lake to watch the sunset. On the mountain across the lake there was a small alpen meadow, covered with grass. In the meadow were white painted stones that formed the letters YMCA. Of course sometimes it would say Billy Loves Susie or some such thing. As the sun set the mist would roll down the mountain. It was lovely!


Camp Hugh Beaver was a new camp to the area. There used to be another camp on the other side of the mountain, Camp Denton. There was family with a child, a hydro-cephallic, a water head. He was quite large for his age but he wasn't all there. He had a favorite toy, a bowling ball. His Father had plugged the finger holes and it was the boy's joy to throw the ball up in the air and catch it. Throw it in the air and catch it. His parents decided to send the boy to camp, just like the more normal kids. While the other kids were playing ball, making lanyards, swimming or studying Indian Lore the Water Melon Baby, that's what the kids nicknamed him; would just throw his ball up in the air and catch it. Throw it in the air and catch it.


Wednesday night was camp-fire night and as the kids were sitting around the fire singing songs, listening to stories and watching the fire, the Water Melon Baby would throw his ball up in the air and catch it. Throw it up in the and catch it. There was one kid there named Billy. He was a wise guy and a bit of a trouble maker. He had spent the day keeping quiet as one of the trials of becoming a third class Indian Brave. A tough ordeal as I well know! Well Billy started dancing around the fire like and Indian and then came up behind the Water Melon Baby. The kid threw his ball up in the air but didn't catch it! Billy had grabbed it and after dancing aroud the fire a couple more times threw the ball into the fire!


The Water Melon Baby just watched his ball turn red in the fire and then he went to the fire a grabbed it. Aiiiee! He screamed as the ball burned his hands and then he ran off into the woods. The police. Firemen, hunters and rangers with dogs looked for the child for a better part of a week but they didn't find him. The camp was in an uproar. Kids who never wrote home, wrote home that week! After a while things settled down, until the next campfire. Billy was at the campfire holding court when the Water Melon Baby appeared out of the woods. He came up behind Billy and grabbing him by both ears he ripped his head off and tossed it in the fire! Then he ran off into the woods again. The locals were called out again and they searched for the Water Melon Baby; but they never found him. The scandal forced the camp to close down. The Easton YMCA later bought the land and built a camp on the other side of the mountain. When I was a camper I loved to watch the mist roll down the mountain at sunset and one night I saw a bear up in that alpen meadow. It picked up one of those white stones, Threw it up in theair and caught it. Threw up in the air and caught it!

 
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